Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist — that he substitutes ‘private’… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?” — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The psyche will do anything to avoid pain, and when faced with something traumatic, like having to pay, its instinct is to… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action,… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“Freud’s life, as embellished by the legend, shows romantic features; Freud’s way of life was that of an aristocrat of the mind… — Henri F. Ellenberger Copy Share Image
“The men and women of the Golden Age, Hesiod wrote, lived in an eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image